Mindanaotoday.com | DOLE Camiguin gives out P345-K worth of livelihood in Mambajao
By: Recthie Paculba
MAMBAJAO, Camiguin – As part of the celebration of the 168th Mambajao Foundation Day, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)-Camiguin Provincial Office, together with the Local Government of Mambajao, held the turnover ceremony of individual projects worth P345,000, July 4, at the Mambajao Municipal Hall.
The 23 beneficiaries are from Barangays Yumbing, Tupsan, Naasag, Kuguita, Benhaan, Agoho, Anito, and Bugong in Mambajao.
“Kani nga opportunity pilian ra, so dapat make the most out of this nga kung unsa ang inyong makuha karon, dapat mapadako gyud na ninyo dili ta musugot nga next week, hapay na,” Mambajao Mayor Yñigo Jesus Romualdo said.
(This opportunity is for a selected few only, so you should make the most of it. Whatever it is that you get now, you should really maximize it. We won’t allow that come next week, your business will already be at a loss)
Through the Nagkabana Multipurpose Cooperative, DOLE’s accredited co-partner, the raw materials given to beneficiaries are adapted to their businesses for beauty parlors, barber services, street food vending, bibingka and puto making, cake and pastry, the alacart project, eloading, manicure and pedicure, and bakery production projects.
The amount of materials received by each beneficiary is about P10,000–P30,000, based on what they need to start a livelihood, said Jovelyn Perez of DOLE Camiguin. (RTP/PIA-10/Camiguin)